A sweeping victory for conservative New Democracy towards SYRIZA is being recorded for the European, local and regional elections.
According to estimation by the Greek Interior ministry based on 10% of counted votes, the difference between ND and SYR is at 9% for the EU elections, with an error margin of +/- 0.5%.
New Democracy 33% – 7 seats
SYRIZA 24% – 6 seats
KINAL/PASOK 7.5% – 5 seats
Communist KKE 5.5% – 2 seats
Golden Dawn 4.9% – 2 seats
Greek Solution (nationalists) 4.2% – 1 seat
MeRa25 (Varoufakis) 3.1% – 1 seat
Other parties 17.8%
SYRIZA wins same number of seats as in the 2014 elections, and ND wins 2 more. GD loses 1 seat. KKE and PASOK maintain same number of seats. To Potami and ANEL lose 2 and 1 seats respectively. They do not manage to send MEP to the European Parliament.
Voters’ participation is at 56.43%
Half an hour after the first official results, ND leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis urged Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to resign and call on snap elections.
Municipality elections
Athens: Bakoyiannis (ND) 42.6% – Iliopoulos (SYR) 16.9%
Thessaloniki: Tahiaos (ND) 22.2% – Zervas 14.7%
Regional elections
Attica; Patoulis (ND) 37.12% – Dourou 20.20%
For Live Results check with the website of the Interior Ministry here.
abstentions ?
check with ‘participation’
ND means “No Democracy”: rule by useless bankers like Samarás. Good luck with that.